» The Hotel Cecil's Dark Past
“But back in 1991, the Cecil Hotel was just the type of Dante-esque place that would have drawn the charismatic, sinister Unterweger, a writer whose murder spree took him from Austria to Prague and Los Angeles at the same time that he reported on those crimes for the Austrian media.”Now smack in the middle of a rapidly gentrifying Downtown, the Cecil is currently undergoing a $7 million transformation into a boutique hotel.